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WETMORE, MAJ. WILLIAM BOERUM (1849-1919)John Lupia submitted the following information from the online draft of his book of numismatic biographies for this week's installment of his series. Thanks! As always, this is an excerpt with the full article and
bibliography available online. This week's subject is collector Maj. William Wetmore. -Editor
Wetmore correspondence with the Chapman Brothers Wetmore, Maj. William Boerum (1849-1919), 167 Madison Avenue, New York; 5 Waverly Place, Greenwich Village, New York, and Allenhurst New Jersey. He is the son of Samuel Wetmore (1812-1885) and Sarah T. Boerum (1820-1899) born on December 7, 1849. A friend of John Work Garrett (1820-1884) he was admitted to West Point upon recommendation by President Johnson from a request made by Garrett. He was a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, 1867-72, served in the Indian War of 1874 and the Battle of Red River, and was a Cavalry Major 9th Regt. N.G.S.N.Y. 1879-1882 . In 1875 he published his address in Winner's Coin & Stamp Journal as Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Sometime in 1877 he purchased from Henry Ahlborn (q.v.), a VF 1794 silver dollar. His second marriage was to Katherine B. Havercamp . His collection of 1290 lots sold through the Samuel Hudson Chapman and Henry Chapman, 82nd sale. on June 27-28, 1906. Durst 674. Adams rating A. Contained ancient, Judaic, foreign coins, medals and gold, United States coins, medals, paper money, fractional currency, patterns and colonials. Among them was the famous Class I "Cohen Specimen" 1804 Silver Dollar. He was an active life member of the ANS since May 20, 1879. To read the complete article, see:
For additional information on Maj. Wetmore and his collection, see Len Augsburger's article "The ANS Chapman Files: Major William Boerum Wetmore" in the 2006 No. 2 issue of our print journal The Asylum. -Editor To read the Asylum article on the Newman Numismatic Portal, see:
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